On 10/15/2015 05:23 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > well, I am, but I was giving a fact, not saying I would sponsor such hack, > just mentioning > that $somebody else is already doing that on debian.
Embedding a library is an absolute no-go in Debian, particularly with core stuff like libpng. The security team is going to kill you when they find out. The fact that someone managed to sneak their packages with an embedded library into the archive doesn't make it any better. You should talk to the FTP team with a beer over this. They'll tell you how much they have to reject just because people's packaging is sometimes really horrible despite the fact that DDs should know better! > personally I would like to see the transition start, but with the libstdc++5 > ongoing one > I don't think -release will ever give an ack for it > (modulo somebody working on it) We already have several huge transitions going on. I am maintainer and co-maintainer for m68k, sh4, sparc, sparc64 and x32 and I am happy about any transition which is currently not going on yet as transitions cost a lot of pain for us. > Of course the package is now in a no-go state :( Yes, that's my whole point. We can upload it like that. As simple as that. A random emulator is not important enough that I start a fight with the security or release team. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913